Aperture just launched Aperture Live, a new initiative to offer live webcasts of their artist talks, panel discussions and other events online. In addition, these webcasts will be archived so that all of us can watch what we missed. Excellent! Aperture Live will debut with a conversation between Susan Meiselas and Alfredo Jaar, broadcasted from [...]
Untitled #892-03, 2003 [from "On the Beach"] © Richard Misrach Richard Misrach recently gave a talk at at the Art Institute of Chicago about his career and newest project, On the Beach. The talk was recorded and can now be streamed online. It’s missing something without the visuals, but try listening while looking through his [...]
Barack Obama, Sprinfield, MO, 2008 © Tim Davis Art For Obama is photography auction in support of the Obama campaign. Great idea, great cause! Organized by photographers Ahndraya Parlato, Elizabeth Moy, Gregory Halpern, Whitney Hubbs and Dru Donovan, the auction includes work from some of the finest in fine art photography. The auction will open [...]
Blurb‘s Photography Book Now contest winners were just announced and I’m happy to report that a few of my own picks made the list: Grand Prize In the Garden by Beth Dow Top Category Winners Reading by Talia Chetrit The Bridge Project by Jonathan Smith 1st Runner Up Something is Happening by John Lehr Singular [...]
As many of you know, Photo-eye recently went paperless and launched their online magazine. The magazine’s latest feature is an interview of mine, a conversation with Brian Finke about his most recent book, Flight Attendants. Much thanks to Brian for taking the time to chat and to Daniel for all of his hard work on [...]
Stephen Hull, web editor of the wonderful Source Photographic Review quarterly photography magazine, wrote me the other day with a link to their new feature: Graduate Photography Online. The project incorporates selections of graduate work from photography courses across the United Kingdom and Ireland (being that Source is based in Belfast, Northern Ireland), with twenty-three [...]
After discovering What Was On (1957), I became a big fan of Square America. Well, Ofer has pointed me to another image collection on the site that is not to be missed: a sequence of stills from a 1970′s IBM ad that looks like it could be a collaboration between John Baldassari and Ed Ruscha. [...]
The call for entries for Blurb‘s Photography Book Now contest has come and gone and all 1796 submissions have been posted online for everyone to browse through. Now it’s just up to the fine selection of jurors to decide who will go home with the $25,000 grand prize and other awards. Well, it’s been long [...]
First Tears Over Another Man, 2002 © Elinor Carucci Women in Photography has just launched with their first online exhibition of photographs by women photographers: photographs by Elinor Carucci from her projects Crisis and Pain. Every other Tuesday of the month, WIP will present a new photographer, co-curated by my lovely friends Amy Elkins and [...]
Thanks to Leslie, I’ve been entertaining myself for the last fifteen minutes with this great little Java applet that can turn any website into a graph. For a simple example, see my portfolio (shanelavalette.com): Here’s an explanation of how it works from Sala, the creator: Everyday, we look at dozens of websites. The structure of [...]
